I feel the same immediately and without any doubts at all... Not the same cables tough, but good cables against other good cables... Bi-wiring must be better...
To bi wire or not bi wire
Hello all,
I have a pair of B&W P6 speakers driven by a plinius 8100 integrated.
The plinius has two sets of speaker outputs per channel and the B&W’s are biwireable.
Would there be any benefit to running 4 separate cables? If so, any recommendations for cables?
The binding posts on the B&W’s make using spades difficult so banana’s would work better.
Just asking this question because it would require a total of 24 feet of cable so it could get pricey real fast.
budget is around $500.
Thanks in advance
I have a pair of B&W P6 speakers driven by a plinius 8100 integrated.
The plinius has two sets of speaker outputs per channel and the B&W’s are biwireable.
Would there be any benefit to running 4 separate cables? If so, any recommendations for cables?
The binding posts on the B&W’s make using spades difficult so banana’s would work better.
Just asking this question because it would require a total of 24 feet of cable so it could get pricey real fast.
budget is around $500.
Thanks in advance
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(1) it is entirely system dependent.... and until you actually do an A-B bake-off... you won’t know. " Kind of true, if you add a crappy cable to a crappy system it will not change too much, that`s true. But adding a good set of cables in a allready good system will definetly open it up. Close to no audiophiles understands biwiring, and on top of that even fewer undestands cables. So you`ll get some rather foggy answers |
CHORD: In all the research we have carried out, a single wire speaker cable out-performs a bi-wire cable of equivalent cost. This makes a lot of sense; the single wire speaker cable has two high quality conductors and the bi-wire cable requires four. So for a given budget, we believe that a single wire cable will always out-perform the equivalent bi-wire cable, so much so that we no longer produce dedicated bi-wire cables..." miller carbon: For the same money you can always do better with one than splitting the money into 2. Duh. Shakespeare: Brevity is the soul of wit. Conclusion: Don't. |
For bi-wiring the argument for shorter length is one of the arguments that speak against it... But they are other arguments... I will give a citation from an interesting article: «We have discovered that if your speakers have four binding posts then you may take advantage of the bi-wiring option and that you will need twice as much cable as before. We theorised and proved by measurement, the counter-intuitive notion that the high and low frequencies travel only in their designated cables. We have also shown by measurement that the theory that this would reduce intermodulation distortion caused by non-linearity in the speaker system is proven.» https://www.qacoustics.co.uk/blog/2016/06/08/bi-wiring-speakers-exploration-benefits/ My Mission speakers are designed to be bi-wired and I listen to them in the 2 flavor, and the bi-wiring gives more details.... Also I dont think in my case that 6 feet of cables versus only 3 feet for each speakers make an audible negative differences... This is an explanation from another known speakers cie. Mirage-Om-7s file:///C:/Users/Utilisateur/Pictures/OM7%20manual.JPG |
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